robustify

English

Etymology

From robust +‎ -ify.

Pronunciation

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Verb

robustify (third-person singular simple present robustifies, present participle robustifying, simple past and past participle robustified)

  1. (software, statistics) To make more robust, that is, more tolerant of unexpected events.
    The UI looks nice, but you'll need to robustify it before it goes into production.
    • 2024, Barbara Rossi, “Recent developments in forecast evaluation”, in Michael P. Clements, Ana Beatriz Galvão, editors, Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Macroeconomic Forecasting, Edward Elgar, page 294 of 274-304:
      To robustify the Mincer and Zarnowitz (1969) test against instabilities, Rossi and Sekhposyan (2016) propose a fluctuation test constructed over rolling windows[.]

See also

  • robusticize